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Tokyo’s Hydrangea Mountain is a spot of beauty created by one son’s love for his parents【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  May 31, 2025
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Thousands of flowers bloom in the west Tokyo mountains, but they all started from one man’s kind thoughts.

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• Japan
• (ajisai • beautiful • flowers • Hydrangea Mountain • hydrangeas • Minamisawa Ajisaiyama • moving • nature • outdoors • touching)

Is this Hello Kitty hotel room in Tokyo good enough to impress an 8-year-old girl?

• Oona McGee
  May 31, 2025

Find out what happens when a father books a night here to impress his daughter.

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• Japan
• (accomodation • Asakusa • children • cute • Hello Kitty • hotels • Japanese accommodation • Kitty-chan • Sanrio • SNJO • themed hotel • themed rooms • Tobu Hotel • Tokyo • Tokyo accommodation • travel)

Deep-fried mint chocolate croquettes and gnocchi gratin on sale at Tobu Department Store in Tokyo

• Master Blaster
  May 31, 2025

It’s a breath of fresh fried mint.

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• Japan
• (Atsumare! Choco Minto • choco mint • cream croquettes • food • gnocchi • Ikebukuro • mint chocolate • Tobu Department Store • Tokyo)

Starbucks Japan has a new limited-edition Frappuccino for summer, but does it taste any good?

• Oona McGee
  May 30, 2025

Do not disturb as our taste buds have checked out for the holidays.

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• Japan
• (Chillax Soda • drinks • Frappuccino • Japanese Frappuccino • limited edition • Limited edition flavours • mango • SNJO • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan • Starbucks limited edition • summer • taste test)

Studio Ghibli releases new Totoro neckties to brighten up your office wear

• Oona McGee
  May 30, 2025

Anime ties and tie pins that’ll start a conversation.

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• Japan
• (anime • cute • Donguri Kyowakoku • fashion • Ghibli • manga • My Neighbor Totoro • My Neighbour Totoro • Necktie • neckties • Studio Ghibli • suit • tie pin • tie pins • ties • Totoro)

The curious case of the pickled radish bread from Shiga Prefecture known as takuan pan

• Krista Rogers
  May 30, 2025

We sample the local specialty bread (or something like it?) that Shiga is famous for (and at least don’t pan-ic in the process).

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• Japan
• (bread • COK • daikon • food • Japanese bread • pan • pickles • SNJO • specialty • takuan pan • weird)

Fewer Japanese people traveling domestically, government blames birth rate, others blame foreign crowds, costs

• Casey Baseel
  May 30, 2025

Japanese domestic travel numbers have shrunk by more than the population has.

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• Japan
• (COK • foreign tourists • overtourism • society • tourism • travel)

Trying a pouch of instant curry that costs as much as a full meal at a nice restaurant

• Master Blaster
  May 30, 2025

Microwave-friendly fine dining!

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• Japan
• (beef • COK • crazy • curry • expensive • expensive food • food • instant curry • luxury food • Miyazaki wagyu • retort curry • SNJO • taste test • Wagyu)

Foreign-born convenience store manager in Japan saves elderly customer from being scammed

• Casey Baseel
  May 30, 2025

Senior regular customer’s shopping trip was very different, and much more expensive, than his usual ones.

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• Japan
• (COK • convenience stores • crime • foreigners in Japan • fraud • fraudsters • Lawson • scammers • scams)

Burger King releases a Pickleball Burger in Japan

• Oona McGee
  May 29, 2025

Limited-edition exclusive serves up newly developed rice patties for the sport, with the help of a Kyoto specialist.

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• Japan
• (Burger King • burgers • COK • crazy • fast food • food • hamburgers • pickleball • sport • sports • weird)

Attendees to Expo 2025 hit record numbers despite record numbers of bugs

• Master Blaster
  May 29, 2025

Maybe everyone’s coming to see the bugs?

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• Japan
• (2025 Osaka World Expo • bugs • chironomids • COK • flies • insects • Osaka • weird)

Old soba restaurant on Japanese train station platform serves noodles with a side of nostalgia

• Oona McGee
  May 29, 2025

If you’ve never tried ekisoba, now’s the time to get on board with the trend.

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• Japan
• (food • Japanese train stations • Noodles • restaurants • SNJO • soba • stand-and-eat • stations • tachigui soba • train station • train stations • trains • travel)

Japanese city pays people to stand on escalators for six hours a day【Video】

• Casey Baseel
  May 29, 2025

Nagoya Stop and Stand Corps is looking to change escalator etiquette.

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• Japan
• (cazy • escalators • etiquette • funny • manners • Nagoya • society • video • weird)

How many times should you mix natto to make it more delicious?

• Oona McGee
  May 29, 2025

Find out if mixing natto 50, 100, 500 or 1,000 times makes it taste less or more like smelly socks.

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• Japan
• (COK • fermented soybeans • food • Japanese food • natto • SNJO • soybeans • taste test • weird food)

Traveling to the the World Expo in Osaka with a baby? We’ve got survival tips for your family

• Krista Rogers
  May 29, 2025

Here’s our parent-to-parent advice for anyone visiting the Expo with small children in tow.

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• Japan
• (babies • COK • kids • Osaka • Osaka World Expo • SNJO • tourism • travel • World Expo 2025)

Beyond matcha sweets: Japan’s favorite katsu sandwich maker releasing matcha pork cutlet sandwich

• Casey Baseel
  May 28, 2025

Masters of their crafts in Tokyo and Kyoto team-up for a very unusual, but very appealing, innovation.

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• Japan
• (food • green tea • Iemon • katsu • katsu sandwiches • Maisen • matcha • pork cutlet • sandwiches • Suntory • tea)

Studio Ghibli releases new My Neighbour Totoro scrunchie and ribbon sets in Japan

• Oona McGee
  May 28, 2025

Enhance your style with subtle nods to the anime film.

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• Japan
• (anime • cool • cute • Donguri Kyowakoku • fashion • Ghibli • hair accessories • manga • My Neighbor Totoro • scrunchies • Studio Ghibli • summer • Totoro)

Saitama women arrested for dueling

• Master Blaster
  May 28, 2025

They demanded satisfaction but got busted instead.

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• Japan
• (COK • crazy • crime • duel • dueling • law • Saitama • teenagers • weird)

Japanese traditional Ghibli gift set lets you give Totoro teatime to a fellow fan…or yourself

• Casey Baseel
  May 28, 2025

Even the bundle of this three-piece bundle is a treat for fans of the anime icon.

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• Japan
• (anime • Donguri Kyowakoku • drinkware • furoshiki • interior • manga • My Neighbor Totoro • Studio Ghibli • tea • teacups • Totoro)

Behold the Oniben, a new type of rice ball that’s part onigiri, part bento boxed meal

• Oona McGee
  May 28, 2025

Traditional Japanese food gets a hybrid makeover.

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• Japan
• (bento • COK • food • Hamamatsu • Japanese food • Kakegawa • Oniben • onigiri • rice balls • Shizuoka • Shizuoka Prefecture • SNJO • travel)

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